About Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and later from 1977 to 1982. His tenure as General Secretary and leader of the Soviet Union was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration.
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Awards & Honors
Lenin Prize
Order of the White Lion
Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"
Order of Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labour
Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Lenin Peace Prize
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Order of the Red Banner
Order of May
Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary
Order of Victory
Order of Sukhbaatar
Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
Gold medal with hero rank of GDR
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South"
Order of Karl Marx
Order of the Red Star
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the National Flag
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"
Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Battle Merit"
Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Gold Star medal
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal
Order of José Martí
Order of Freedom (Yugoslavia)
Order of Georgi Dimitrov
Order of the Sun of Liberty
Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR
United Nations Peace Medal
Commemorative medals of the Czechoslovak army abroad
Gold Medal of the Nation
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Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Gold Mercury International Award
Hero of Labour of Mongolia
Collar of the Order of the White Lion
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class
Grand Cross of the Order of Military Virtue
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic
Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star
Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit (Guinea)
Order of the National Flag, 1st class
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945
Gold Star Order
Star of the Republic of Indonesia
Order of Hồ Chí Minh
Order of the Victory of Socialism
Hero of the Republic of Cuba
Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
Order of Klement Gottwald
Hero of Labour
Dimitrov Prize medal
Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic
Karl Marx Gold Medal
Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution"
Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"
Medal "For Bravery Before the Enemy"
Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945
Order of Playa Girón
National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Grand Star of People's Friendship
